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Horseback Riding
$185 per week
Ages 8 - 15
Horseback riding has been popular part of Camp Farley's 75+ year history and is pleased to welcome back Cathy Hill
of C.J.'s Ranch for her 8th year. Cathy Hill is a lifelong, established horse instructor with riding programs located
in Marstons Mills, Sandwich, and Camp Farley. She is a regionally renowned rider and horse instructor, and has lead several
award winning 4-H Horse clubs and riding groups.
Camp Farley's optional program is designed to give boys and girls, 8 years old (while at camp) and older, the basic skills
required to safely ride, manage, and care for horses. Instruction and riding are combined in 3-hour classes, 5 days each week.
Campers participate in other camp activities while not in horseback riding and must be enrolled in Camp Farley's Overnight or
Day Camp program.
Cathy and her staff carefully select their riding horses/ponies for their suitability and appropriateness for children of
all riding levels. Camp will provide protective headgear, but campers signed up for riding must wear long pants and hard
soled shoes. For safety considerations, campers should avoid wearing open-toed footgear and sneakers. For liability
purposes, parents will be asked to provide camp a signed liability waiver. This form can be printed from our website or
will be mailed after registering.
There are two riding sessions each day, with 10 riders in each session. Older campers are generally placed in the morning
group, with younger campers having horseback riding each afternoon. There is a minimum of two riding instructors present at
all times. During each session, half the group is typically engaged in riding and/or direct hands-on experiences with the
horses, while the other half is involved in non-riding, hands-on horse related activities.
Campers typically learn mounting, steering, stopping, and balanced and centered riding. In addition to horsemanship and
riding skills, activities may include feeding, grooming and bathing, stall cleaning and maintenance, leading horses/ponies,
parts of the horse, how horses think and sense, how to wrap a horse and the different types of wraps, different types of
riding, and many other related horse topics.
English riding is not excluded, but a stronger influence is placed on Western dressage technique as a means of establishing
the fundamentals of balance and control. Riding levels of each participant is evaluated during the beginning of each week
and the dynamics of the program approach for each weekly group is geared accordingly.
Click here to register your child for a fun packed summer at Camp Farley.
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